But after watching "The Lord of the Rings", I no longer look forward to any blockbuster movies, can there be any stories and effects that surpass "The Lord of the Rings"? "Potter"? Just a children's film; "Narnia"? Even more garbage. There are also all kinds of films advertised as surpassing what and what, making people constantly disappointed. Originally, I liked will.smith's films. "I robot" has a good visual but no story. "I Am Legend" is a complete disappointment. "Superman Hancock" made me not interested in watching it. And after watching "The Spiderwick Chronicles", there is no more pursuit of visual effects. And what everyone said about "Pan's Labyrinth", I didn't like it at all, the boring and far-fetched plot, just a few monsters, people can't remember anything after watching it.
Well, now back to this hellboy2, in terms of visual effects, it has indeed made a great progress and leap over the first episode. The types, numbers and shapes of monsters are all amazing. Although there is a shadow of "Men in Black", But the environment and colors are much better. What worries me is that the director didn't use the boy's wife—the one who gets mad when he gets angry—to spend too much performance shots, because the peculiarity of anger is so badly used that there is no gimmick to use it again. The new characters Luada and Gas Man are also reasonable in terms of shape and function. The actions of the protagonists are also well designed, clean and neat. The fight scenes are handled well
Speaking of the story, it's not too out of the ordinary on the whole. It continues the main line of the first episode and adds the tragic villain Prince Luada, but the design is not too dark, and the essence is still good, not too bloodthirsty. But there are a few shortcomings. The appearance of the gas man is justified, but when the boy went to the underground palace after being injured, he was originally against unauthorized actions, and even said that the boy could be fired and the boy's life could be sacrificed for the sake of mankind. The three of them (boy, wife, mermaid) changed before they got on the plane, and they went with them. The change was too fast, and before the end, the three boys said no, and lived on their own. He also said something inexplicable to the former leader of the organization, which seemed a bit abrupt.
In addition, on Prince Luada, the foreshadowing in the front was not very good. He killed his father not long after he appeared on the scene, and his twin sister was on the side of humans again. The explanation and description in this aspect were not good enough. Personally, I think that if you give more pen and ink to the prince, the story will be fuller~
The other funny scenes are all good. Overall, it is worth watching!
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